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Thanks a million to John Ward, Dave Jordan and Dave Lavelle for letting me upload their old tracks here to the Archive.

And thanks to Dave Jordan for passing on copies of the recordings uploaded here.


IRISH-METAL ARCHIVE LINKS ;
http://irish-metal.blogspot.com/2012/10/ethereal.html
http://irish-metal.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-my-lakes-are-dying-demo-1994

ALTERNATIVE FREE DOWNLOAD ;
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OTHER BAND LINKS ;
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RECORDING LINE-UP ;
Vocals - John Ward
Bass - Dave Jordan (Lunatic Fringe)
Guitar - Dave Lavelle
Guitar - Craig Wilkie
Drums - Don O' Donovan


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ETHEREAL were a Doom/Death band from Cork back in the early 1990's. The first incarnation of the band gigged around the Cork area and played mainly cover versions of bands such as PARADISE LOST, CATHEDRAL, MY DYING BRIDE among others. They did play a couple of original tracks too called 'Classic Misery' and 'Near To Tears' which as far as I can tell were never officially released, but live versions of them did appear on the 'In Gods Own Image -Vol.1' underground compilation tape back in 1993. Both these original tracks and a selection of cover tracks from 1992 are available to stream and for free download at this link... http://archive.org/details/Ethereal_-_LiveInNancySpains_1992

Come 1994 and the line-up had changed. But the band had been writing and rehearsing more original material which the set about playing and recording at various gigs that year. One of these recordings from 26th March 1994 was released as the 'My Lakes Are Dying' live demo which is available to stream and for free download here on this page. Although the intro track also titled, 'My Lakes Are Dying' is missing from the copy available here.

There are also links to stream and download a couple of other full sets of gigs that the band did around the same time.
One was again recorded in Nancy Spain's on the 16th April 1994 and can be found here... http://archive.org/details/Ethereal_-_LiveInNancySpains_16April1994.

The other is an audio rip from a VHS tape of a gig they played in Killeagh, Cork in May 1994 which can be found here... http://archive.org/details/Ethereal_-_LiveInKilleagh_May1994.
The video footage of the gig is also available to view here...http://www.veoh.com/watch/v37027599ZwjErSDY


It's pretty safe to say that their sound is directly influenced from the early works of the Unholy Trinity of Doom legends... PARADISE LOST, ANATHEMA and MY DYING BRIDE. The tracks on the demo have an almost hypnotic effect to them. The longer tracks are fairly repetitive, but not to the point of being boring. You're just sort of carried away with them. Poetry is obviously a factor in the song writing also. Tracks like 'The King Flies' and 'The Poets Grave' opting to incorporate spoken word passages. The later in particular standing out from the pack as a rather demented piece. I had it on at home one time and it scared the living shit out of my kids.

Dave Jordan, Dave Lavelle and John Ward have all been in touch and have said that they are planning to revisit some of the old demo tracks and in the coming months. Which will be something to look forward to, as all of their output from back when they were active are live recordings and not proper studio demos. So I can't help but wonder how the demo would have come across if all the tracks, or even just some of them, were given proper studio treatment. Needless to say! I'll be keeping an eye (and ear) open for any further developments.


This audio is part of the collection: IRISH-METAL ARCHIVE
It also belongs to collection: Netlabels

Artist/Composer: IRISH-METAL ARCHIVE
Date: 1994-03-26
Source: http://irish-metal.blogspot.com/2012/10/ethereal.html
Keywords: Ethereal; Cork; Doom; Doom/Death;

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland

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